Coming.
Because the time is ripe, the a#e is ready. Because the world her woman’s help demands, Out of the long subjection and seclusion Come to our field of warfare and confusion The mother's heart and hard?. Long has she stood aside, endured and
waited While man swung forward, toiling on
alone; Now, for the weary man so long ill mated, Now, for the world for which she was created,
Comes woman i' her own. Not for hereelf; tl mgh sweet the air of freedom ; Not for herself! though dear the new-born power; But for the child, wno needs a nobler mother, For the whole peopb, netting one another, Comes woman to her hour. —Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
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White Ribbon, Volume 10, Issue 111, 15 August 1904, Page 10
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117Coming. White Ribbon, Volume 10, Issue 111, 15 August 1904, Page 10
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